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+
+Name:           lorax-templates-rhel
+Version:        8.0
+Release:        1%{?dist}
+Summary:        RHEL8 build templates for lorax and livemedia-creator
+
+#Group:          Applications/System
+License:        GPLv2+
+URL:            https://github.com/weldr/lorax
+Source0:        runtime-install.tmpl
+#Source1:        runtime-postinstall.tmpl
+#Source2:        runtime-cleanup.tmpl
+
+# It's just text, my friends
+BuildArch: noarch
+
+# Where are these supposed to end up?
+%define templatedir %{_datadir}/lorax/templates.d/80-rhel
+
+# We need the toplevel templates for arch-specific bits etc.
+Requires: lorax-templates >= 28.14.0
+
+%description
+RHEL-specific Lorax templates for creating the boot.iso and live isos are
+placed in %{templatedir}
+
+%prep
+# no-op - our sources are already prepped
+
+%build
+# no-op - there's nothing to build
+
+%install
+rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{templatedir}
+cp -a %{sources} $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{templatedir}
+
+%files
+%dir %{templatedir}
+%{templatedir}/*.tmpl
+
+%changelog
+* Mon Jun 18 2018 Will Woods <wwoods@redhat.com> - 8.0-1
+- Initial creation of lorax-templates-rhel package
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+## lorax template file: populate the ramdisk (runtime image)
+<%page args="basearch, product"/>
+
+## anaconda package
+installpkg anaconda anaconda-widgets kexec-tools-anaconda-addon anaconda-install-env-deps
+## Other available payloads
+installpkg dnf
+installpkg rpm-ostree ostree
+## speed up compression on multicore systems
+installpkg pigz
+
+## kernel and firmware
+## NOTE: Without explicitly including kernel-modules-extra dnf will choose kernel-debuginfo-*
+##       to satify a gfs2-utils kmod requirement
+installpkg kernel kernel-modules kernel-modules-extra
+installpkg grubby
+%if basearch != "s390x":
+    ## skip the firmware for sound, video, and scanners, none of which will
+    ## do much good for the installer. Also skip uhd-firmware which is not
+    ## even a kernel firmware package.
+    installpkg --optional *-firmware --except alsa* --except midisport-firmware \
+                           --except crystalhd-firmware --except ivtv-firmware \
+                           --except cx18-firmware --except iscan-firmware \
+                           --except uhd-firmware --except lulzbot-marlin-firmware
+%endif
+
+## install all of the glibc langpacks since otherwise we get no locales
+installpkg glibc-all-langpacks
+
+## arch-specific packages (bootloaders etc.)
+%if basearch == "aarch64":
+    installpkg efibootmgr grub2-efi-aa64-cdboot grubby shim-aa64
+%endif
+%if basearch in ("arm", "armhfp"):
+    installpkg kernel-lpae
+    installpkg uboot-tools
+%endif
+%if basearch == "i386":
+    installpkg gpart
+%endif
+%if basearch == "x86_64":
+    installpkg grub2-tools-efi
+    installpkg efibootmgr
+    installpkg shim-x64 grub2-efi-x64-cdboot
+    installpkg shim-ia32 grub2-efi-ia32-cdboot
+%endif
+%if basearch in ("i386", "x86_64"):
+    installpkg biosdevname memtest86+ syslinux
+    installpkg grub2-tools grub2-tools-minimal grub2-tools-extra
+%endif
+%if basearch in ("ppc", "ppc64", "ppc64le"):
+    installpkg fbset hfsutils powerpc-utils lsvpd ppc64-diag
+    installpkg grub2-tools grub2-tools-minimal grub2-tools-extra
+    installpkg grub2-${basearch}
+%endif
+%if basearch == "s390x":
+    installpkg lsscsi s390utils-base s390utils-cmsfs-fuse s390utils-hmcdrvfs
+%endif
+
+## yay, plymouth
+installpkg plymouth
+
+## extra dracut modules
+installpkg anaconda-dracut dracut-network dracut-config-generic dracut-fips
+
+## rescue needs this
+installpkg cryptsetup
+
+## rpcbind or portmap needed by dracut nfs module
+installpkg rpcbind
+
+## required for dracut
+installpkg kbd kbd-misc
+## required for anaconda-dracut (img-lib etc.)
+installpkg tar xz curl bzip2
+
+## basic system stuff
+installpkg systemd-sysv systemd-units
+installpkg rsyslog
+
+## xorg/GUI packages
+%if basearch != "s390x":
+installpkg xorg-x11-drivers xorg-x11-server-Xorg
+%endif
+installpkg xorg-x11-server-utils xorg-x11-xauth
+installpkg dbus-x11 metacity gsettings-desktop-schemas
+installpkg nm-connection-editor
+installpkg librsvg2
+
+## filesystem tools
+installpkg btrfs-progs jfsutils xfsprogs reiserfs-utils gfs2-utils ntfs-3g ntfsprogs
+installpkg system-storage-manager
+installpkg device-mapper-persistent-data
+installpkg xfsdump
+
+## extra storage packages
+installpkg udisks2 udisks2-iscsi
+
+## extra libblockdev plugins
+installpkg libblockdev-lvm-dbus
+
+## needed for LUKS escrow
+installpkg volume_key
+installpkg nss-tools
+
+## SELinux support
+installpkg selinux-policy-targeted audit
+
+## network tools/servers
+installpkg ethtool openssh-server nfs-utils openssh-clients
+installpkg tigervnc-server-minimal
+%if basearch != "s390x":
+installpkg tigervnc-server-module
+%endif
+installpkg net-tools
+installpkg bridge-utils
+installpkg nmap-ncat
+
+## hardware utilities/libraries
+installpkg pciutils usbutils ipmitool
+installpkg mt-st smartmontools
+installpkg hdparm
+%if basearch not in ("aarch64", "ppc64le", "s390x"):
+installpkg pcmciautils
+%endif
+## see bug #1483278
+%if basearch not in ("arm", "armhfp"):
+    installpkg libmlx4 rdma-core
+%endif
+installpkg rng-tools
+
+## fonts & themes
+installpkg bitmap-fangsongti-fonts
+installpkg dejavu-sans-fonts dejavu-sans-mono-fonts
+installpkg kacst-farsi-fonts
+installpkg kacst-qurn-fonts
+installpkg lklug-fonts
+installpkg lohit-assamese-fonts
+installpkg lohit-bengali-fonts
+installpkg lohit-devanagari-fonts
+installpkg lohit-gu*-fonts
+installpkg lohit-kannada-fonts
+installpkg lohit-odia-fonts
+installpkg lohit-tamil-fonts
+installpkg lohit-telugu-fonts
+installpkg madan-fonts
+installpkg nhn-nanum-gothic-fonts
+installpkg smc-meera-fonts
+installpkg thai-scalable-waree-fonts
+installpkg vlgothic-fonts
+installpkg wqy-microhei-fonts
+installpkg sil-abyssinica-fonts
+installpkg xorg-x11-fonts-misc
+installpkg aajohan-comfortaa-fonts
+installpkg abattis-cantarell-fonts
+installpkg sil-scheherazade-fonts
+installpkg jomolhari-fonts
+installpkg khmeros-base-fonts
+installpkg sil-padauk-fonts
+
+## debugging/bug reporting tools
+installpkg gdb-gdbserver
+installpkg libreport-plugin-bugzilla libreport-plugin-reportuploader
+installpkg fpaste
+
+## extra tools not required by anaconda
+installpkg vim-minimal strace lsof dump xz less eject
+installpkg wget rsync bind-utils ftp mtr vconfig
+installpkg icfg spice-vdagent
+installpkg gdisk hexedit sg3_utils
+
+## satisfy libnotify's desktop-notification-daemon with the least crazy option
+installpkg notification-daemon
+
+## Docker enabled boot.iso
+# Not all arches currently have docker
+%if basearch not in ("ppc", "ppc64", "s390"):
+    installpkg docker-anaconda-addon
+%endif
+
+## actually install all the requested packages
+run_pkg_transaction
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